Rachel Reeves – 2022 Comments on Liz Truss U-Turn on Public Sector Pay

Section of the article written by Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the Yorkshire Post (full article here) on 6 August 2022.

The Tory leadership favourite pledged to slash £8.8bn from the pay of our hardworking nurses, teachers, police officers and armed forces – cutting their salaries by an average of £1,500 a year.

What’s worse, her plan would’ve meant lower pay for public sector workers in the North, and higher pay for those in London and the South East. How absurd is that.

After a backlash her campaign tried to claim she was misrepresented, but the truth is that Liz Truss called for this policy as far back as 2018 when she was a Minister in the Treasury. It’s clear this is not only what she said but what she really believes.